Managed Services Summit Why should you attend?

Now in its 8th year, the Managed Services Summit Manchester continues to complement its sister events in London, Stockholm, and Amsterdam, serving as a premier event for the UK, Nordics, and European IT channels. The Northern UK market offers unique opportunities and challenges, emphasizing cost-efficiency, practical innovation, and long-term partnerships, making it particularly relevant for MSPs and IT providers.

The Managed Services Summit is series of executive-level events, so you know you’ll be among the best in the sector, and those featured will explore the latest trends and developments, evolving customer requirements and how to create value through managed services – both for your own organisation and your customers

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Industry Insights

Presentations will cover the latest trends, evolving customer requirements, and strategies for creating value through managed services.

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Breakouts

Attend a range of sessions led by leading specialists in the field, focusing on technical, sales, and business-related topics.

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Networking

Connect with professionals in the IT channel, including senior decision makers and industry leaders.

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Interactions

Engage in discussions, debates, and collaborations with event sponsors and peers across the industry.

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MSS Benelux

30th June 2026, Amsterdam

MSS London

9th September 2026, London

MSS Nordics

5th November 2026, Stockholm

Meet our 2026 Event Speakers

Gavin Roberts

Topsec Cloud Solutions

Gavin Roberts

Topsec Cloud Solutions

Awaiting biography.

Mark Olding

Bitdefender

Mark Olding

Bitdefender

Mark Olding is a passionate cybersecurity professional with deep expertise in Channel Enablement, Endpoint Security, Email Security, and Threat Protection. As a MSP Product Specialist at Bitdefender, he helps partners stay ahead of evolving threats through cutting-edge MDR and threat intelligence solutions.

Known for his engaging public speaking and impactful partner training sessions, Mark brings complex cybersecurity topics to life — empowering MSPs and channel partners to build stronger, smarter security practices.

Before joining Bitdefender, Mark worked as a Channel Sales Engineer at Mimecast, driving MSP and distribution enablement for multilayered email security and human risk management. He’s also held senior presales roles at Sophos, Kaspersky, and Symantec, helping organizations and partners elevate their cyber resilience through endpoint, XDR, and cloud security innovation.


David Maginnes

Sherweb

David Maginnes is responsible for partner development at Sherweb, working closely with MSPs across the UK and Ireland to help them grow commercially.

With over two decades in technology sales spanning SMB, enterprise, and public sector, David brings real world experience of building sales teams, taking MSP solutions to market, and navigating the commercial realities of the Microsoft ecosystem. He is passionate about helping MSPs move beyond reactive selling and build repeatable, sustainable sales motion that supports long term growth.


Lauren Brown

Huntress

Lauren Brown

Huntress

Lauren has six years of experience in the industry, spanning across numerous areas of the cybersecurity landscape. She's worked for vendors specialising in email security, SIEM and DLP and is thrilled to have recently joined the Huntress EMEA team. Over the span of her career, Lauren has partnered closely with a number of MSPs and channel partners as a trusted advisor, helping organisations understand modern threats and build practical, effective security strategies.

Professor Sue Turner OBE

Sue Turner is dedicated to using her expertise in AI governance and ethics to inspire people and organisations to use AI with wisdom and integrity.

With both a Law degree and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, she established AI Governance Limited in 2020 to advise businesses and policy makers on pragmatic AI, data ethics and governance issues, and making a positive societal impact. Her Board development clients range from Fortune 100 and FTSE 350 businesses to small charities, and her reach is global through accredited training programmes and being a founder member of the United Nations AI Skills Coalition. She has been rated in the World's Top 100 Women in AI Ethics and was one of the first 14 people globally to be accredited in the Foundations of Independent Audit of AI systems.

She is Professor in Practice for AI and Technologies at the University of Bristol Business School, and has been a Board Chair and Non-Executive Director for purpose-driven businesses in regulated industries as well as a Mentor on the Turing Institute’s Skills Policy Awards. Her career spans entrepreneurial private businesses and not-for-profit organisations where she has led significant organisational growth, raised £27 million for charity and collaborated to shift power to help people improve their prospects. She was awarded the OBE in 2021 for Services to Social Justice.


Name to be advised

Megaport

Awaiting biography.

Elliot Wilkie

Elovade UK & I

Elliot Wilkie

Elovade UK & I

Elliot is the Product Manager at Elovade UK &I. His key focuses include Microsoft 365 management and DMARC, helping MSPs with both technical and sales support. After launching a key Elovade UK&I vendor, helping it to become the fastest growing vendor partnership in its history, Elliot has also deployed this vendor across the pan-European group.

Kieron Moore

Acronis

Kieron Moore

Acronis

Kieron Moore leads strategic partner acquisition for Acronis across the UK and Ireland. He began his career in business continuity and disaster recovery, supporting organisations in the finance, government and charity sectors. Since joining Acronis six years ago, he has specialised in complex, distributed enterprise and retail environments. Kieron helps partners and customers strengthen their cloud transformation strategies through integrated data protection, cybersecurity and automation, with a focus on building resilience and improving operational efficiency.

Meet our 2026 Event Sponsors

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